The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-18

gers could be learned, but it is not thought
! that any of the injuries received will prove
fatal. A young lady at ond time connect
ed with the kansas City museum was badly
hurt and was taken to Atchison this morn
ing"
Conductor Wilson says that the wreck is
regarded as
THE WORK OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
The rail had been taken out and showed in
about two inches, so that 1t would have
been impossible for train TO have cleared
| the break.
The tools that the men had worked with
were found near the track and consisted OF
a claw-bar and several smaller pieces.
The section house at the junction OF the
Burlington & Missouri and the Missouri
Pacific, but short distance from where
the accident occurred, was found to have
been robbed and the tracks of two men
discovered in the snow. Conductor Viii
son says that several members OF the
Knights of Labor have for some time past
exhibited signs of animosity towards De-
Witt for some unknown cause, and for that
reason they are credited with the work.
Fireman Gates said that the first intima-
ton he had of approaching danger was a
cry from Dewitt: jim, We are gone y
The train then left the track, and tn. con-
tents of the boiler were emptied on parts
of his body, leaving him in the most pain
full and helpless position. Engineer De-
Witt is resident of Wyandotte, and his
remains will be brought here at once.
After the accident the cars had been
thrown SO far from the track that the rail
had been replaced and everything cleared
In one half hours time. 4 new train was
made up and the passengers left for their
destination. A few of them arrived in the
city with Conductor Wilson this morning.
STILL LATER.
Kansas City, Jan. 1.-THE throttle lever
was forced through DeWiu's right lung
and his face was scalded black. The ex-
press messenger is frightfully wounded.
His skull was very badly fractured and
every bone In his face broken. Among tie
passengers hurt is Mrs. Armstrong, wife OF
the superintendent of the asylum for
feeble minded at San Francisco A dis
patch from Nebraska City to the Times
advances the theory that
THE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME WAS ROBBERY.
there being ST. 900 worth of bullion on
the train. This theory is discredited here
however. An official of the railway at
this point says there is no evidence that
the work was instigated by any knight Of
of Labor organization, but the luminosity
of ex-strikers toward Dewitt is we'll
known. The Times special from Wyan-
dotte, Kas., the home of the dead engineer
has the following: DeWitt's friends
openly
CHARGE HIS DEATH TO THE KNIGHTS OF
LABOR.
1t appears that he was delegate to the
convention held at st. Louis last spring
during the great southwestern strike, to
determine whether the engineers should 60
out In support of the strike. Dewitt rep
resented two districts and cast two votes
against the strikers. If he had voted for
them it would have turned the scale.
Subsequently he received several warnings
not to run his engine, but he disregarded
them.
THE wRECKERS ARRESTED.
Kansas City, Jan. 1.-THE Journals
Nebraska City, Neb., special says: David
w. Hoffman, of Dunbar, and JAS A. Bell,
of Anadiely, Neb., were arrested at Dun
bar this morning. charged with having
caused the wreck last night. Hoffman was
recently a brakeman on the B. q M.
railway, while little is known of Bell.
both have been idling about some. Neither
one is member of the local knights of
Labor, both were some what intoxicated
when arrested and Hoffman was badly
frightened. the coroners jury returned
verdict this afternoon to the effect that
the wreck was caused by Hoffman, Bell and
others.